Research/art/teacher profile of a person
Name and surname:
prof. Mgr. Martin Sabol, PhD.
Document type:
Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:
Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:
Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava

I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname
Sabol
I.2 - Name
Martin
I.3 - Degrees
Prof., Mgr., PhD.
I.4 - Year of birth
1973
I.5 - Name of the workplace
Department of Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
I.6 - Address of the workplace
Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
I.7 - Position
Professor
I.8 - E-mail address
martin.sabol@uniba.sk
I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff
https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/4442
I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university
42. Earth Sciences
I.11 - ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2064-4631

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education
II.2 - Second degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
1997
II.c - Study field and programme
Geology
II.3 - Third degree of higher education
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2000
II.c - Study field and programme
Geology
II.4 - Associate professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2008
II.c - Study field and programme
Geology
II.5 - Professor
II.a - Name of the university or institution
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava
II.b - Year
2021
II.c - Study field and programme
Geology
II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position III.b - Institution III.c - Duration
special assistant Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava 2000-2008
Associate Professor Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava 2008-2021
Professor Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava since 2022

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.1.a - Name of the profile course V.1.b - Study programme V.1.c - Degree V.1.d - Field of study
Vertebrate Palaeontology Palaeontology I. Earth Sciences
Applied palaeobiology Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences
Quaternary of the Western Carpathians Dynamic Geology - Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences
Field exercises in paleontology Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences
Diploma Thesis 1,2 Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences
V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year
V.2.a - Name of the study programme V.2.b - Degree V.2.c - Field of study
Palaeontology I. Earth Sciences
Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences
Palaeontology III. Earth Sciences
V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year
V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses
V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
0
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
2
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
1
V.4.2 - Number of defended theses
V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)
13
V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)
15
V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)
4
V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes
V.5.a - Name of the course V.5.b - Study programme V.5.c - Degree V.5.d - Field of study
Palaeontology Geology / Palaeontology I. Earth Sciences
General Palaeontology Palaeobiology I. Earth Sciences
Quaternary Nature Archaeology I. Historical Sciences
Palaeozoology Zoology II. Biology
Quarternary of the Western Carpathians Geology / Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences
Evolution of Quaternary Nature Zoology II. Biology
Evolutionary zoopaleontology Palaeontology II. Earth Sciences

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations
VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
256
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
57
VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
42
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
19
VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
VI.1.a - Overall
497
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
165
VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases
VI.1.a - Overall
318
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
161
VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level
VI.1.a - Overall
3
VI.1.b - Over the last six years
2
VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
1

Sabol, M., 2005: Middle Miocene assemblage of insectivores from Bonanza site near Devínska Nová Ves (Slovakia). Geologica Carpathica, 56, 5, Bratislava, 433-445.

2

Fejfar, O. & Sabol, M., 2009: Middle Miocene Plesiodimylus from the Devínska Nová Ves-Fissures site (western Slovakia). Bulletin of Geosciences, 84 (4), 611-624.

3

Krajcarz, M., et al., 2016: Isotopic variability of cave bears (σ15N, σ13C) across Europe during MIS 3. Quaternary Science Reviews, 131, 51-72.

4

Sabol, M. et al., 2018: Montane record of the late Pleistocene Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) from the Západné Tatry Mountains (northern Slovakia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1467921

5

Ersmark, E. et al., 2019: Genetic turnovers and northern survival during the last glacial maximum in European brown bears. Ecology and Evolution, 1–15.

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
1

Ersmark, E. et al., 2019: Genetic turnovers and northern survival during the last glacial maximum in European brown bears. Ecology and Evolution, 1–15.

2

Sabol, M. et al., 2021: Updated Miocene mammal biochronology of Slovakia. Geologica Carpathica, 72, 5, 425–443.

3

Bonilla Salomón, I., Luján, A. H., Ivanov, M. & Sabol, M., 2021: Aliveria‌ mojmiri sp. nov. among other flying and ground squirrels (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the early Miocene of Mokrá-Quarry sites (Moravia, Czech Republic). Historical Biology, 1-14; DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2021.1992403

4

Bonilla-Salomón, I., Čermák, S., Luján, A. H., Jovells-Vaqué, S., Ivanov, M. & Sabol, M., 2022: Early Miocene remains of Melissiodon from Mokrá-Quarry (Moravia, Czech Republic) shed light on the evolutionary history of the rare cricetid genus. PeerJ, 10, e13820 (1-26); http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13820.

5

Sabol, M., Tomašových, A. & Gullár, J., 2022: Geographic and temporal variability in Pleistocene lion-like felids: Implications for their evolution and taxonomy. Palaeontologia Electronica, 25(2):a26 (1-27); https://doi.org/10.26879/1175

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
1

Sabol, M. et al., 2017: First fossil record of leopard-like felid (Panthera cf. pardus) from alluvial deposits of the Po River in northern Italy. Quaternary International, 436, 192-200. In: Paijmans, J. L. A. et al., 2018: Historical biogeography of the leopard (Panthera pardus) and its extinct Eurasian populations. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18, 156, 1-12.

2

Sabol, M., 2011: A record of Pleistocene lion-like felids in the territory of Slovakia. Quaternaire, Hors-série, 4, Lyon, 215-228. In: Marciszak, A. et al., 2019: Morphometric comparison of Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) from Poland with the lion remains from Eurasia over the last 700 ka. Quaternary Science Reviews, 223, 105950.

3

Sabol, M., 2014: Panthera fossilis (Reichenau, 1906) (Felidae, Carnivora) from Za Hajovnou Cave (Moravia, the Czech Republic): A fossil record from 1987-2007. Sbornik Narodniho Muzea v Praze, Rada B Prirodni Vedy, 70, 1-2. 59-70. In: Alvarez-Lao, D. J. et al., 2020: A cave lion (Panthera spelaea) skeleton from Torca del León (NW Iberia): Micromammals indicate a temperate and forest environment corresponding to GI-11 (MIS 3). Quaternary Science Reviews, 229, 106-123.

4

Petrovič, V. - Sabol, M. et al., 2018: External brain morphology of juvenile cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) from the Jasovská jaskyňa Cave (Slovakia) revealed by X-ray computed tomography. Acta Geologica Slovaca, 10 (2), 133-142. In: Iurino, D. A. et al., 2020: Braincase With Natural Endocast of a Juvenile Rhinocerotinae From the Late Middle Pleistocene Site of Melpignano (Apulia, Southern Italy). Front. Earth Sci., 8, 94; doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.00094.

5
Sabol, M. et al., 2018: Montane record of the late Pleistocene Panthera spelaea (GOLDFUSS, 1810) from the Západné Tatry Mountains (northern Slovakia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1467921. In: Chahud, A. & Okumura, M., 2020: The presence of Panthera onca Linnaeus 1758 (Felidae) in the Pleistocene of the region of Lagoa Santa, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1808975.


VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
1

Grant VEGA č. 1/0164/19: Biostratigraphy of terrestrial sediments from the Cenozoic period in the Slovak territory of the Western Carpathians (2019 - 2021); principal investigator

2

APVV-15-0575: Paleoclimatic record and variability of the Miocene climate in the central and eastern Paratetodes (2016 - 2020); co-investigator

3

APVV-16-0121: Geodynamic processes in the area of the junction of the Alps and the Carpathians dated on the basis of the developmental stages of the Vienna and Danube basins in the Cenozoic (2017 - 2021); co-investigator

4

APVV-20-0079: Chronostratigraphic standards and sedimentary archives of global changes of biota and paleoenvironments of the Western Carpathians (2021 – 2025); co-investigator

5

APVV-23-0282: The interaction of man and the environment in the context of prehistoric cave settlements in Slovakia (2024 – 2028); co-investigator

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position VII.b - Name of the institution, board VII.c - Duration
society member Society of Vertebrate Society 1997 - Recent
member of Editorial Board Slovenský kras – Acta Carsologica Slovaca (SSJ, SMOPaJ) 2016 - Recent
member of Editorial Board Fossil Imprint (NM Praha) 2016 - Recent
member of Editorial Board SNM - Natural History Museum 2016 - Recent
member of Editorial Board Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology 2018 - Recent

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

Awards:

2015: Letter of thanks from the dean of PriF UK for excellent work results as a university teacher

2018: Award from the Slovak Speleological Society for paleontological contribution to speleology

Date of last update
2025-01-30